Ciar McCormick | Staff Writer On 8 November Provost Patrick Prendergast announced in a speech to alumni on the future of Trinity College that he would consider privatisation as an option for the university. This is not the first time Prendergast has raised what he called the “key issue” of privatisation. At a debate held by the Historical Society (Hist) and the Philosophical Society (Phil) this motion of privatising the Dublin University, which was keenly suggested by the Global Graduate Forum, was chaired by none other than Prendergast himself. The idea of privatising Trinity College is not an isolated matter but in fact part of … Continue reading Disappearing Academic Thought